THE GENERAL EPISTLE OF
JUDE
CHAPTER 1
1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and
brother of James, to them that are sanctified by
God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ,
and called:
2 Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be
multiplied.
3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write
unto you of the common salvation, it was
needful for me to write unto you, and exhort
you that ye should earnestly contend for the
faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
4 For there are certain men crept in
unawares, who were before of old ordained to
this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the
grace of our God into lasciviousness, and
denying the only Lord God, and our Lord
Jesus Christ.
5 I will therefore put you in remembrance,
though ye once knew this, how that the Lord,
having saved the people out of the land of
Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed
not.
6 And the angels which kept not their first
estate, but left their own habitation, he hath
reserved in everlasting chains under darkness
unto the judgment of the great day.
7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the
cities about them in like manner, giving
themselves over to fornication, and going after
strange flesh, are set forth for an example,
suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile
the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of
dignities.
9 Yet Michael the archangel, when
contending with the devil he disputed about
the body of Moses, durst not bring against him
a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke
thee.
10 But these speak evil of those things
which they know not: but what they know
naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they
corrupt themselves.
11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the
way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of
1
Balaam for reward, and perished in the
gainsaying of Core.
12 These are spots in your feasts of charity,
when they feast with you, feeding themselves
without fear: clouds they are without water,
carried about of winds; trees whose fruit
withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked
up by the roots;
13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out
their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is
reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam,
prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord
cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to
convince all that are ungodly among them of
all their ungodly deeds which they have
ungodly committed, and of all their hard
speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken
against him.
16 These are murmurers, complainers,
walking after their own lusts; and their mouth
speaketh great swelling words, having men's
persons in admiration because of advantage.
17 But, beloved, remember ye the words
which were spoken before of the apostles of
our Lord Jesus Christ;
18 How that they told you there should be
mockers in the last time, who should walk
after their own ungodly lusts.
19 These be they who separate themselves,
sensual, having not the Spirit.
20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves
on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy
Ghost,
21 Keep yourselves in the love of God,
looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ
unto eternal life.
22 And of some have compassion, making a
difference:
23 And others save with fear, pulling them
out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted
by the flesh.
24 Now unto him that is able to keep you
from falling, and to present you faultless
before the presence of his glory with
exceeding joy,
25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be
glory and majesty, dominion and power, both
now and ever. Amen.